Carl Wolfgang Müller

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Carl Wolfgang Müller (born November 12, 1928 in Dresden ) is a professor emeritus for educational sciences and social education at the TU Berlin . His focus lies in the areas of methods of social work, methods of empirical social research, history of social work and, since the 1980s, in social and biography research .

Live and act

Müller graduated from secondary school in Chemnitz in 1947 and began training as an interpreter in Leipzig . He then moved to Berlin , where he began studying European cultural studies at the Humboldt University and the newly founded Free University of Berlin (FU). After studying in Basel , he completed his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 1956. phil. in media studies, theater studies and German studies with a comparative cultural-historical work.

After working as a journalist and youth care worker, Müller became a lecturer and later head of the Haus am Rupenhorn , a training center for educators, youth care workers and teachers initiated by the western allies. As part of a postdoctoral degree in sociology , education and social pedagogy, he went to Columbia University in New York as a fellow of the Harkness Foundation in 1963 . Research into the Welfare History and Community took him to the Universities of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Berkeley, California. He completed his studies in the United States in 1965. In the same year, on the recommendation of Ludwig von Friedeburg, he was appointed professor of educational sciences and social pedagogy at the University of Education in Berlin. Here he established himself as one of the leading German experts in the research, development and evaluation of methods of social work.

With the incorporation of the University of Education into the Technical University of Berlin, CW Müller became the founder and first director of the Institute for Social Pedagogy in 1980. Through this institute, he pioneered many research and modeling projects. Parallel to his own research and publications, he led over thirty students to doctorate and about ten to habilitation. Even after his retirement in 1997, he remained connected to the institute. As an author, lecturer and consultant for many events, projects and institutes, he is a popular national and international guest.

Together with Klaus Mollenhauer (University of Göttingen, † 1998), Hans Thiersch (University of Tübingen) and Hans-Uwe Otto (University of Bielefeld), CW Müller is considered to be one of the most important promoters of educational science. His work in institutes, associations and committees (including the Social Pedagogical Institute (SPI) of the Workers' Welfare Association and the German Society for Educational Science ) has significantly influenced practice and theory development in German social pedagogy. Many of his books, such as his historical outline of social pedagogy “How Helping Became a Profession”, published in 1982, are now part of their standard literature.

Honors

In 2006 the University of Siegen awarded Müller an honorary doctorate.

In 2008 Müller received the Harald Swedner Award from the International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD), named after a prominent Swedish social scientist .

In 2014 Müller was awarded the Marie Juchacz plaque from the Arbeiterwohlfahrt .

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Siegen currently. Archived from the original on June 7, 2007 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 .
  2. ^ Social awakening. (No longer available online.) Unibz.it, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unibz.it
  3. ^ Stefan Hoffmann: Marie Juchacz plaque awarded to Prof. CW Müller. awo-informationsservice.org, April 4, 2014, accessed August 7, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Carl Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educational scientist, social worker and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden